Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Anthropology
United States
1952
101 quotes
American anthropologist who examined friction, matsutake mushrooms, and multispecies worlds in globalization.
Most quoted
"To be a good ethnographer is to be a good listener, to be open to surprise, and to be willing to be changed by what you hear."
— from Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection, 2005
"To live well in the ruins means to cultivate curiosity, humility, and a willingness to learn from others, human and nonhuman."
— from The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins, 2015
"The challenge is not to escape precarity, but to learn to live with it, and even to find forms of flourishing within it."
— from The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins, 2015
All quotes by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing (101)
Hope is a practice, not a possession.
Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet
2017
Contemporaries of Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
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